3rd CLS Track is Sponsored by Morgan Crucible

Tuesday July 17, 2012

7:00 to 8:30 a.m. - Ceramic Leadership Summit Senior Executive Forum (Invitation-only Breakfast Meeting)

8:45 to 9:40 a.m. - ICC4 Plenary Lecture From Academia to Business, Delbert Day, Mo-Sci Corporation

10:00 a.m. to Noon - 
Technology Entrepreneurship – the Next Generation of Technology Transfer

Many people perceive the USA as the leader in entrepreneurship and technology transfer from basic research to a commercial setting. This moderated panel discussion will explore the development of commercial products through directed R&D with a focus on US-based small business ventures. It will follow a plenary talk by the founder of a successful ceramic materials company that takes technologies from the lab bench to established commercial products. The panel members - entrepreneurs, investors and technology transfer experts - will each make brief opening remarks. They will be followed by a question and answer session in which the moderator will develop the theme of starting, funding, staffing and growing technology-based businesses. There will be time for questions from the audience.

Organizer: Richard Weber, Materials Development Inc.

Moderator: Tim Lavengood, Evanston Technology Innovation Center

Panel Members:

Delbert Day, Mo-Sci Corporation - established glass and ceramics company

Collin Anderson, Digital Innovations - successful technology business

Alex Arzoumanidis, Psylotech, Inc. - early-stage technology business

Jonathan Goodman, Synthesis Intellectual Property, LLC - IP lawyer

Leslie Millar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - technology transfer

John Banta, IllinoisVentures, LLC - seed and early-stage technology investment firm

Noon to 1:30 p.m. - Lunch and ICC4 Plenary Lecture Emerging Ceramic Technologies: A Perspective from Morgan Crucible Co., Michael Murray, Morgan Crucible Co. plc

1:40 to 3:40 p.m. -
International Technology Transfer & Entrepreneurship Case Studies

• Entrepreneurial Success of Balder LTD - Electro-optic Light Shutters for Eye-protection, Janez Pirs, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
• Development and Commercialization of High Performance Ceramics for Oil and Natural Gas Recovery, John Hellmann, Pennsylvania State University, United States
• From Technology Innovation to Industrialization: A Case of Ceramic Microbeads Based on Gel-bead Forming, Jinlong Yang, Tsinghua University, China
• Neoker, A Spin-out of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Victor Valcarcel, CTO and CEO, Neoker, S.L., Spain
• Thermoelectric Power Generation in Wide Temperature Region, Ryoji Funahashi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology, Japan

Review the 3rd CLS track Speaker Biographies.

Note: Angus Kingon, Brown University, will be giving a related talk on entrepreneurship in the Workplace Development session Monday, July 16. Don’t miss it.